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Show The attempt to abolish the army canteen has resulted in a limitation of liquors to beer alone, and nowScnator lilair is exerting every effort to prohibit pro-hibit beer. Ho maintains that it is more "insidious and dangerous" than the vile whisky and other fiery compounds com-pounds which the. soldiers procure in the saloons. The New York Sun, in this connection, asks: "Is congress ready, by taking away . tho soldier's present facilities for getting a glass of light beer at the government canteen, to tempt him to go outside the fort and get drunk in the low liquor saloons that are waiting to make him their victim?" |